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thismeintiel on 26 June 2017
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konnichiwa said:
Soundwave said:

I got my first DVD player (a Toshiba brand one) for about $200 in fall of 2000 when The Matrix came out, but it was on sale. 

That said if DVD was such a sales driver, why didn't it help the XBox in the same way (it was easy to give it DVD capability) or why didn't the Panasonic DVD GameCube system in Japan do great numbers?

Seriously XD?

First of all Xbox released a year later and was more expensive than a PS2, secondly by that time it also had a lot of game titles, thirdly if you wanted to watch DVD movies you had to buy a seperate adaptor.... 

Panasonic Q GC did not do great because the time it released their were already +8 million PS2 consoles sold in Japan + it was also not that cheap.   
Why you don't ask yourself, why Nintendo/panasonic still went trough with making a DVD GC if DVD was not that important for PS2 sales? Maybe because a lot of Japanese families reported they got a PS2 in the first year because it was a great family system? It was simply a great gift for parents themself who could watch DVD movies with it and their kids playing games.

@ bold

Nope.  You need to look that up, again.  PS2 launch price $299.  Xbox launch price $299.  PS2 price when Xbox launched...$299.  They both cost the exact same.  And they both got cuts to $199, $179, and $149 at the same time, too.  So, price had nothing to do with it. And the adaptor was only $30 and came with a remote.  A mere $30 dollars does not explain the HUGE difference between the two.

1 year headstart?  When has that made a difference?  That didn't help the Genesis, which actually got a 2 year head start, beat the SNES.  It didn't help the 3DO, Jaguar, or Saturn (more like 1/2 a year) beat the PS1, or even the N64.  It didn't help the Dreamcast beat the PS2, or even GC/Xbox.  It didn't help the 360 beat the Wii, or even PS3.  And it definitely didn't help the Wii U beat the PS4, or even XBO.  1 year means nothing if you stop constantly delivering after that year.